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Tagged: 1930s
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Women played an important role during Australia’s early years of radio broadcasting. We look at the contributions of several pioneering women, starting with Queenie Ashton.
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As the world turns its attention to London, host city of the 2012 Olympic Games, Simon Smith explores an endearing travelogue of the city.
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David Donaldson, the inaugural Director of the Sydney Film Festival, shines a light on the career of South Australian-born Hollywood pioneer JP McGowan.
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Assistant Curator Jenny Gall spoke with CJ Dennis biographer Phil Butters, ahead of this week's centenary anniversary of the publication of The Sentimental Bloke.
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An article for the publication Wireless Weekly written by Lynn Foster, circa 1938, about writing for radio. Reproduced by arrangement with Silicon Chip Publications Pty Ltd.
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Eileen Joyce (1908–1991) was an Australian piano prodigy whose international career spanned more than 30 years.
Born in Zeehan, Tasmania, she studied in Perth and at the Leipzig Conservatorium before...
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Few Australian radio serials have had the enduring popularity of Yes, What?.
A total of 520 episodes were broadcast on Adelaide radio station 5AD with the first going to air on 23 June 1936 and...
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the announcer introduces Jack Hides, who gives a description of his 1935 expedition to the Strickland-Purari region of Papua, the last large unexplored area.
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In this excerpt from a 1974 oral history interview with silent-era filmmaker Paulette McDonagh, she recalls her experience filming Don Bradman at the height of his cricketing career for the short...
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Double sided aluminium record with a personal message on one side and an advertising message for Harrods Department store on the other side. Record came in a branded 'A Voice Record' brown paper...